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State appeals SB 1070 ruling

Case heads back to court


Fri, 08/27/2010 - 00:01







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By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services

PHOENIX — An attorney for the state formally asked a federal appeals court Thursday to undo the injunction a trial judge issued blocking Arizona from enforcing parts of its new immigration law.

In legal papers filed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, John Bouma said Congress always intended to “encourage state and local cooperation’’ in enforcement of immigration laws. He said any arguments by the U.S. Department of Justice that SB 1070 is preempted by federal law is just wrong.

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jack on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 08:19
Title: Quite a stretch

On this mornings news a church in Phoenix was claiming SB1070 responsible for
poor membership, amazing!

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WW2 Marine Veteran on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 07:28
Title: Correcting parts of SB 1070

I believe that correcting the harmful parts of SB1070 is wise. I further
believe that our state of Arizona is underful harmful attack by ILLEGAL
aliens, i.e., ILLEGAL Drug Cartels plus other criminal aliens.

Huachuca Henry on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 06:40
Title: One trick pony has her

One trick pony has her election coming in November